Breast Cosmetic Surgery

Breast enlargement (augmentation)

When considering breast augmentation, you must understand that the result will depend primarily on your anatomy before the procedure. Your result will be influenced by the current shape of your breast, the anatomy of your chest, the quality of the skin, and the amount of existing breast tissue.

Expecting your breasts to look the same as your favorite celebrity's or your result to be the same as your friend's is unrealistic and will undoubtedly lead to disappointment.

Breasts symbolise everything feminine, glorious, sensuous, desirable, and sound.

Breast fat grafting

Using fat to improve breast size, correct breast irregularities, or address anatomical differences between breasts has become a routine surgical procedure for the experienced plastic surgeon.

Fat grafting to the breast can also be used to hide or enhance several deformities presenting after other breast procedures, such as loss of volume to the upper pole of the breast, the rippling of implants, minor contour deformities like dents, or enhancing the size of existing implants, without replacing the implants.

Breast lift (mastopexy)

A mastopexy or breast lift can be performed to reshape and lift the breast, nipple and areola into a more youthful position. Women with too much breast volume can combine the procedure with a breast reduction. In contrast, those lacking volume can combine it with the placement of implants in a procedure known as augmentation mastopexy.

Mastopexy procedures must be tailored to each patient, depending on the exact concerns of the patient, the patient’s breast anatomy and the skin quality of the breast.

Weight loss, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and aging can leave a woman’s breasts without shape or contour.

Breast reduction (reduction mammaplasty)

Large breasts can cause both health and emotional problems. Physical discomfort, including a chronically painful neck, shoulders, and upper back, skin irritations, deep grooves on the shoulders from bra straps, and poor posture, can restrict a woman's ability to lead an active life. Huge breasts can make a woman, or a young girl, feel extremely self-conscious.

Breast reduction could relieve these problems by reducing the size of the breasts and making them more harmonious with the rest of the body.

Corrective breast procedures

Patients sometimes have differently shaped breasts, tuberous breasts, and other deformities.

Like the rest of our bodies, breasts change shape and form as we age, so the results of previous breast surgery might not remain the same and require surgical correction.

Breast implants might not have an expiry date, but they have a limited lifetime and might therefore have to be replaced at some stage.

Personal preferences and lifestyle changes might lead to different decisions about previous breast procedures.

A combination of any techniques used to either enlarge, lift or reduce the size of breasts can be performed to correct these anomalies.

Corrective breast procedures might sound simple, but they challenge even the most experienced plastic surgeon.

A critical assessment of the quality and amount of breast tissue, the previous surgery, implants, and scars is necessary before proceeding with corrective breast surgery.

Male Breast Reduction (Gynaecomastia)

Whereas men's breasts can also be enlarged due to excess weight, gynaecomastia refers to hard, firm breast tissue that develops directly behind the nipple of some males.

Both young boys and older men can develop gynecomastia. In some cases, the breasts may become tender.

Gynaecomastia develops due to hormonal changes in puberty and later aging. It can sometimes be caused by prescription and over-the-counter drugs, recreational drugs, tumors (such as breast cancer), and disease. In some cases, gynecomastia presents itself in one breast only.

Gynaecomastia refers to hard, firm breast tissue that develops directly behind the nipple of some males.

Nipple procedures

Congenital deformities, trauma, or normal aging could impact the correct size and position of the nipple and the areola – the pigmented part around the nipple.
Patients may present with inverted nipples, huge nipples, absent nipples, or large or small areolar areas. In some cases, patients might also require a nipple lift, where the nipples have descended due to weight loss or after childbirth.
This procedure forms a natural part of breast reduction and breast lift surgery. Still, it can also be performed as a standalone procedure where necessary.

Nipples can be aptly described as “the cherry on top” of an aesthetically pleasing breast.